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Climate change could affect your drinking water
2014-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Connection: Drinking cups of clear tap water could be a luxury we are less likely to take for granted in the near future as climate-change culprits affect our waterwaysand our water bills. #The increased development of Northern Virginia, along with agricultural uses, have been slowing down the Potomacs fast-moving water for a number of years; add climate-change factors like rising air and water temperatures and we now have what the Shenandoah Riverkeeper Jeff Kelble calls a double whammy on the river. ...
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Safe Coast Virginia: Report outlines the climate change threat
2014-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Press: That's the nut of the latest report on the impact of climate change on Hampton Roads released Wednesday by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. "Safe Coast Virginia: Climate Change Threats and Practical Solutions for Coastal Virginia" contains no big surprises, but CCAN director Mike Tidwell said it is the first to aggregate the latest science, tell the stories of real people experiencing climate change and recommend 10 achievable ways to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable impacts of a rising...
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Climate Change Skeptics Dumped by BBC to Create 'Balance'
2014-07-10 15:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Climate change skeptics are being banned from BBC News, according to a new report, for fear of misinforming people and to create more of a "balance" when discussing man-made climate change. The latest casualty is Nigel Lawson, former London chancellor and climate change skeptic, who has just recently been barred from appearing on BBC. Lord Lawson, who has written about climate change, said the corporation is silencing the debate on global warming since he discussed the topic on its Radio 4 Today...
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Canada: 'No Evidence' Alberta Monitored Results of Climate Change Strategy, Says Auditor General
2014-07-10 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: Six years after unveiling its strategy to combat climate change, the Alberta government has failed to meet its targets, hasnt regularly monitored its results and has yet to publish a single public document on its outcomes, the provinces auditor general said in a scathing report released Tuesday. Auditor General Merwan Saher concluded that four years after the Alberta governments 2008 Climate Change Strategy was unveiled, the environment department still hadnt established a method of consistently...
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Climate change makes criteria used predict weather obsolete, UN says
2014-07-09 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The criteria used by everyone from farmers to governments to predict normal weather patterns need to be updated more frequently to account for significant changes caused by climate change, the U.N.s World Meteorological Organization said Wednesday. The WMO's Commission for Climatology believes that rising temperatures and more frequent heat waves and heavy rains mean that existing criteria, based on climate averages from 1961 to 1990, are out of date. The commissions report highlighted growing...
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